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On NetBSD, a segv was occurring in mutt_ts_capability() because
tigetstr() was implicitly declared and thus defaulted to return type
int. The 8-byte (char *) actually returned was being converted to a
4-byte int before being assigned to the (char *) variable. This
resulted in a corrupted pointer, causing a segv when dereferenced.
I thought C99+ should warn about implicit declarations. Although
configure.ac AC_PROG_CC_C99 asserts the compiler can handle C99,
perhaps it doesn't put the compiler in the mode to strictly enforce
it. (Thanks to rkta on IRC for the input).
The solution, as the man page notes, is to include <term.h> before
invoking those functions.
Unfortunately term.h pollutes the namespace with all sorts of defines.
Currently that include columns and lines, which are used inside Mutt.
To help prevent issues, create Mutt wrappers for the functions and
split them into a separate file, curs_ti_lib.c, that #include
<term.h>, rather than just adding #include <term.h> to mutt_curses.h
Apparently on some older platforms, #include <curses.h> would also
include term.h, so make sure columns in undef'ed in mutt_curses.h. (I
think we would have heard about that problem already, but just in
case.)
A huge thank you to rahl on IRC for debugging this issue, and working
with me over IRC to test various suggestions until the issue was
found. I didn't have access to a NetBSD instance, so rahl saved me
much time and effort, and was crucial to fixing this bug.
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